Re: [AD] Finding a solution to the Windows problem

[Max Savenkov <max.savenkov@xxxxxxxxxx>]

12.04.2015 10:59, AJ пишет:
> On 12/04/2015 3:40 AM, SiegeLord wrote:
>
> what are the top 3 reasons why they are hard?
>
>
> i'm guessing:
> *  each dependency has a different procedure to build it.
> *  no easy way to download them dynamically
> *  they don't install to sensible places
>
>
> what else is there?
I think it's mostly number one - different build procedures. CMake can 
more or less solve #2 (because it supports both downloading from http 
and checking out from SVN/Git), and #3 usually could be controlled 
through build settings.
Another thing, is that some of Allegro dependencies have dependencies of 
their own (libpng needs zlib, FreeType needs libpng and some other 
libraries etc.), so we need to have a complete dependency tree for 
checking out and compiling, and compile them in the right order.

As an aside: Allegro does not seem to work with modern versions of DUMB 
(https://github.com/kode54/dumb), only with the old 2005 version from 
the original author (http://dumb.sourceforge.net/).